Working tiny is a great way to experiment - with these artworks, I explored the theme of trees, using my own photographs and public domain photographs.  The techniques used include cyanotype, direct printing of photographs on archival tissue paper and collage.  The photos and cyanotypes are mounted on painted wood panel.

I turned the photos into tiny, glowing gems, by using different colors behind them, or by transforming the photos by printing them as cyantoypes (aka sun prints).  Transformation is a recurring theme in my art - I do this by gold-leafing objects, using found quilt blocks in a new work, or by printing photographs and objects as cyanotypes.

Elaine Luther is an independent studio artist whose mission is to make art that’s brave, vulnerable and true.

Her art has been exhibited in Chicago and across the country, including at Gallery I/O in New Orleans, LA Woman Made Gallery in Chicago and the Jewish Museum Milwaukee.  Solo shows include Harold Washington Library, additional libraries, the Compassion Factory, Northern Illinois University's Backspace Gallery, and multiple micro-galleries, including two in the U.K.  Her work is in the permanent collection of the Henry Sheldon Museum and the Kolaj Institute.

She has written for the Craft Industry Alliance, Moore Women Artists, and Sixty Inches from the Center.   An essay on her work is included in the forthcoming book Give and Take, edited by Tal Fitzpatrick.  

She lives in Chicagoland where she’s also the gallerist for a series of dollhouse scale box galleries where she puts on shows of miniature art.  

Find her at ElaineLutherArt.com